Queensland Consolidated Acts

YOUTH JUSTICE ACT 1992 - SECT 281

281 Registration of birth of child of detainee

(1) In this section—

"document" means a certificate or other document made or issued under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2023 in relation to the birth of a child or an alteration or addition to the name of a child.

(2) If a document is made or issued in relation to a child whose mother or father is, or was when the child was born, detained in a detention centre or otherwise detained under this Act—

(a) the document must not state that fact or contain information from which that fact can reasonably be inferred; and

(b) an address—

(i) that is required by the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003 to be shown in the document; and

(ii) that can not be shown in the document because of paragraph (a) ;

must instead be shown as the city or town in which or nearest to which the address is situated.